Good morning boys and girls! I hope you are all well this morning. Today Is Friday so remember it is catch up day! Have a look over our blog posts and see what you have missed this week. Try and go our virtual trip under to ocean!🐙🐟
I hope you have a lovely weekend!💜💜💜
Below is the link to the School Age Section on the Social Security Scotland website, this has all the information about the benefit which opened for applications on 1st June. I would also recommend following Social Security Scotland on Facebook as there is a number of posts made regarding this payment.
Good morning,
Here is a link to today’s work. Enjoy! 🙂
Rapid Readers –
Rockstar Readers –
Royal Readers –
Transition Visit from Johnstone High – Thursday 18th June 2020
We are delighted to announce there will be an opportunity for P7 pupils to come into our school on Thursday 18th June from 9.00 – 11.00. During this time, staff from Johnstone High will visit and share some important information with the pupils. The safety of our pupils and staff is our top priority and as such, this visit will be organised in line with government guidance on social distancing. This means the children will be split into 3 groups, across 3 classrooms to allow for pupils and staff to be spaced at 2 metre distances. Staff from the High School will visit each classroom.
In order to restrict the number of pupils entering/leaving the school at one time, pupils will be given a staggered entry and exit time. The schedule for the day is as follows:
9:15 am – Group A arrive
9:20 am – Group B arrive
9:25 am – Group C arrive
9.30 – 11.00 am – Johnstone High Staff Visits for all P7 pupils
11:00 am – Group A leave
11:05 am – Group B leave
11:10 am – Group C leave
Parents/Carers of P7 pupils will be contacted in the coming days to inform you of the group your child has been allocated to. This group only indicates the time your child will arrive and leave. When dropping off and picking up children, please follow the signs and markers outside the school building to allow for social distancing. In order to maintain social distancing please drop off and pick up as quickly as possible to allow for minimal numbers of people outside the school building. It would be great if pupils could wear their leaver’s hoodie to both events.
P7 Leaver’s Celebration Event – Wednesday, 24th June
Although this is not what we had planned, on this date we will have the chance to give our P7 pupils a farewell event and mark the end of their time at Cochrane Castle Primary. The event will take place in our school gym hall to allow for pupils and staff to be spaced at 2 metre distances but also come together as a whole year group. Due to restricted numbers and space, it will not be possible for parents to attend this event, however, we will live stream it so you don’t miss out.
As above, pupils will be given a staggered entry and exit time. The schedule for the day is as follows:
10:45 am – Group A arrive
10:50 am – Group B arrive
10:55 am – Group C arrive
11.00 – 12.00 am – Cochrane Castle P7 Leavers Event for all P7 pupils
12:00 am – Group A leave
12:05 am – Group B leave
12:10 am – Group C leave
We hope that our P7 pupils enjoy this opportunity to mark the end of their time at Cochrane Castle.
I recently contacted you to advise that the Induction days I had planned for May would have to be rescheduled when the school re-opened.
After further guidance from Renfrewshire Council, I am delighted to tell you that we have organised an Induction day for Tuesday 23rd June, 10.00am – 11.00 am. This will give us an opportunity to tell you about our wonderful school and a little bit about the P1 experience. In addition, your child will get to meet their teacher. I am sure you will have many questions too.
Due to the guidance around parents in the building, only one adult will be admitted per child.
When you arrive at the school, please come to the main entrance. There will be markings on the ground for you and your child to stand. In order to observe social distancing guidelines only one parent and one child will be admitted into the building at a time. When in the building, you will be directed to the gym hall/dining room. This is a large area and will allow us to observe social distancing seating.
We look forward to meeting you and your child.
Good Morning boys and girls – I am super excited today because we are going on another virtual trip! This time we are going a trip under the ocean! 🐟
I would like you to write down three facts you learned during our trip. 🐙
For maths today I would like you to explore our pattern game – I have put the game on to our virtual classroom – click maths area.
Remember to upload work to your portfolio on Class Dojo! 💖⭐️💖
Good Morning boys and girls – thank you to all the work that has been sent in so far!⭐️
For language today I would like you to choose one of the stories form our virtual classroom. Can you tell me what you liked about the story? Is there anything you didn’t like? Did you make any connections with the story? Is there anything in the story that puzzled you (did you have any questions)?📚
For maths today I would like you to explore the new maths game on our virtual classroom – click maths area. Try to do the skip counting task.🔢
Remember to send me your work or update your portfolio!💜⭐️💜
Dear Parent/Carer,
As you know, we are all busy planning for a return to school in August when all schools across Scotland will provide pupils with a blended learning model, therefore pupils will not immediately return to being educated in the school building on a full-time basis. We know that one of the many things that parents are thinking about is uniform. You will be aware that the return to school will look different and part of that will involve an increase, where possible, in Outdoor Learning both to support literacy and numeracy and to promote Health & Wellbeing.
As such, I am happy for us to adopt a more ‘relaxed’ uniform next session. I do believe that some uniform is important both to encourage a shared identity across our school community and to minimise cost for parents. My suggestion would be that children wear a white school polo shirt and/or navy sweatshirt and that we allow children to wear black or grey jogging bottoms or other comfortable clothing. This would allow us to have a sense of ‘uniform’ but would also help children to be comfortable for the range of learning they will be taking part in. As always, no football colours are allowed.
With Outdoor Learning in mind, I would also urge parents to ensure that children are equipped with an outdoor jacket and wellies or other appropriate footwear as children will be encouraged to go outdoors in all weathers even for a short time each day. As always, please do not hesitate to contact the school if you require financial support to help with this.
I am very mindful that our new Primary 1 parents may be keen to have that special ‘First Day Experience’ – something that is very important to us all and which involves the excitement of buying uniform. This is entirely a parental choice and we will be in touch will our new families over the next few weeks in relation to supporting the Primary 1 transition.
I will continue to issue further information about our return to school when this becomes available.
Kind regards,
Pam McDowall
Headteacher
Good Morning boys and girls – I hope you managed to watch our sound of the week videos yesterday!😊
For language today I would like you to take what you learned about Oscar’s Bothersome brother and complete the work below in your orange writing jotter.
For maths today I would like you to practise your addition/ subtraction skills. Use the game I put on your virtual classroom – click maths area. Use the calculator to check your sums are correct.
Remember to explore our virtual classroom.⭐️🦄⭐️
Firstly I hope you are safe and well and enjoying this beautiful sunshine!
We are now in Week 5 of our Online RL Olympics.
Last week, we only had 1 entry at Cochrane Castle and I know we can get more than that! But well done to that 1 entry, we really appreciate your efforts!!
This week our challenge is how many step ups can YOU do? Easy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58eKWVEH7dg
https://www.cognitoforms.com/RenfrewshireLeisure3/RLOnlineOlympics2020W5
Please remember to upload your best score by 11:59pm on Sunday 14th of June for your entry to be considered.
A reminder that Sam is also doing live 3pm dances on a Wednesdays on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/rlsportservices/
And lastly, can I remind you of Sengas walking challenge too at the following link, it is not too late to join in;https://www.renfrewshireleisure.com/renfrewshire-leisure-walking-challenge/
Come on Cochrane Castle, lets show Renfrewshire what we can do!!
Amy (Active School Coordinator)
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